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Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...
General operation
Here is a presentation of the Flux environment; the project management, the data management, the command language, the formulas and mathematical functions.
Command language, command files and macros
PyFlux and Python languages
PyFlux in interactive modePython editor

Welcome
User guide
The user guide gives information about principles and how to use Altair® Flux® 2024.1.
What's new?
See the release notes of the last and previous versions, with the necessary information on new features.
"How to" Documents
See a list of documents to understand how to use certain features.
Altair Flux Videos
Several youtube videos about how to use Altair Flux and several tip and tricks
Flux Supervisor
The Flux supervisor allows to run projects, examples, pythons scripts; to configure user preferences; to access tools...
Flux
Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...
- General operation
  Here is a presentation of the Flux environment; the project management, the data management, the command language, the formulas and mathematical functions.
- Construction of a Flux project
  The construction of a Flux project consists of several stages: Geometry → Mesh → Physics → Resolution → Postprocessing; with the possibility to import a CAD file, a mesh, materials...
- Physical applications
  Flux allows to model different physical phenomena, and includes various applications (magnetic, electrical, thermal and thermal coupled).
- Circuit and Kinematic Couplings
  Flux is coupled to a circuit context allowing to model the sources of the devices.Flux also allow to model the movement via a kinematic coupling.
- Co-simulation between Flux and another software
  Flux is able to couple with several softwares allowing to model mutliphysics phenomena.
- Dedicated couplings
  Several dedicated couplings are implemented in Flux to, carry out vibro-acoustic studies, magneto-thermal studies and more.
- 3D Overlay
  Flux has predefined models for rotating machines via Overlays allowing to describe a geometry, a mesh and a physics adapted to the wished machine.
- Flux API
- How to Configure the Memory in Flux?
Flux Skew
Flux Skew is a module dedicated to the analysis of rotating electric machines with skewing, allowing a straightforward geometric and physical description in 2D and the consideration of continuous or step skewing effects.
Flux PEEC
Flux PEEC is a 3D modeling module dedicated to electrical interconnections of power electronics devices. It also provides RLC extraction and generation of SPICE-like equivalent circuits.
Material Identification
The Material Identification tool is based on the Altair Compose environment and allows determining from measurements the parameters and coefficients required to create a material in Flux.
Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)
AMDC is a comprehensive material database maintained by Altair and partner suppliers of engineering materials. Ready-to-use, Flux-compatible models may be obtained directly from this database for a growing number of materials.
Material Manager
Flux has a material manager with its own material base.The user can create his own material base and import them into the Flux models to be studied.
Flux e-Machine Toolbox
FeMt is a application in Flux dedicated for Electric Machine which permits to compute and postprocess results like efficiency maps.
Flux Examples
See the lists of examples 2D, 3D, SKEW and PEEC with all available documents and all project and python files.
Flux in SimLab Examples
See the lists of 2D and 3D SimLab examples using the Flux and Mipse solvers, with all available documents, *.slb databases and all script files.
Mementos
See a list of Memento documents to understand certain Flux features.
Macros
Flux proposes several macros enabling doing actions that are not yet implemented in Flux.
PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
This documentation deals with the Jython script used in Flux and allows to understand the various structures of entities and functions, and use it in user scripts for example.
Flux installation guide
This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.
Flux Starting Guide
Several short videos to start with Flux.

PyFlux in interactive modePython editor

Introduction

A programming language can be used:

in interactive mode, directly in the Flux window (python editor)
in script mode, via command files

Operation in interactive mode is presented in this paragraph. Operation in script mode is presented in § Command files .

Different zones

The Flux main window consists of several zones (graphic zone, data tree, etc.). The principal zones are presented in § Presentation of working environment .

The zones concerning the use of PyFlux in interactive mode are the zones presented in the figure below.


Zone	Function
History	Result of executed PyFlux commands
PyFlux Command	This area is composed by three parts: Command prompt Python Editor Echo

« Echo » zone

This zone contains two log.py files is available (in read only):

the “Flux[XX]_log.py” : all commands performed by the user during a session are recorded in this file.*
the “Project_PyFlux_log.py” : all commands performed by the user during the beginning of the project up to the end of the project are recorded in this file.

«Editor python » zone

With python editor, user can read , write , run totally or only some selected command of the python script.

Notes :

It is possible to open several py script file (one tab by file)
This zone allows displaying automatically the groovy file when the user use subroutine in groovy language
An editor python similar is available directly on the supervisor (script python context)

“Command prompt” zone

In this zone, the user can run and test a python command (or more python commands) directly, without create a new .py file. It's an operating direct mode, useful when you need to work quickly or debug your python command.

Example

You can enter a line of PyFlux / Python command directly into the Command zone, the answer is then displayed in the History zone.

An example of use of the Command zone as calculator is presented below.


Command prompt zone	History zone	Echo zone

Drag and drop

User can “Drag and drop” between different windows by selecting command with the mouse. It is equivalent to a copy + paste

Hide/display

User can hide or display one of these three zones in the PyFlux command window by clicking on